Lucy Ferriss's modern-day meditations are harrowing, whimsical, elegant, and probing. These beautifully composed pieces are small miracles of the essayist's art, and few writers at work today are as deft as Ferriss at finding wonder and meaning in the ordinary, the overlooked, the unusual, and the familiar. This is a writer you want to spend hour upon hour with, reveling in the cadences of her prose, marveling at her ability to glean wisdom from...